Menchaca was co-director, co-writer and lead actor of the 2013
Heartland Film Festival movie
This Is Where We Live. In 2015, he played a lead role as Bob Stevens, a veteran struggling with memory loss, in the Kyle Ham-directed film
Reparation. It earned him the best actor award at the
Breckenridge Film Festival, In the 2018
Netflix television series
Ozark, He has regular recent roles on television in
The Sinner and
Manifest. He appeared again on TV with
Jason Bateman in 2019, in the
Stephen King horror miniseries portraying Jack Hoskins in all 10 episodes of
The Outsider (2019). The same year he starred alongside
Miley Cyrus playing her father Kevin Goggins in the
Black Mirror episode "
Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too" (2019). for his performance as Sam in the
John Hyams thriller
Alone alongside co-star
Jules Willcox. He performed his own stunts in the film, including a fight scene in mud with Willcox. In 2021, he starred in the
Santiago Menghini-directed
Netflix horror movie
No One Gets Out Alive with co-star
Cristina Rodlo. In 2025, Menchaca played Ronald "Red" Schmidt and The Dark Passenger in
Dexter: Resurrection. ==Personal life==